brainstorming: which formats to use and which to avoid

[Werner Koch]

 || On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 02:37:57 +0200
 || Frank Heckenbach <frank at g-n-u.de> wrote: 

 fh> This is gzip or also the `.zip' format? (When saying zip, most
 fh> people will think of the latter.)

rfc1552 is the gzip fileformat.  The Zip archive format is to my
knowledge only described in the documentaion of the Zip tools.


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